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California History Moment: The Flood of 1862

On December 24, 1861, it began raining in Los Angeles. Not so unusual, except that it kept raining for most of the next four weeks. Rain like that all over the state caused the Flood of 1862, which created temporary inland seas in Orange County and the Central Valley, and forced the new governor of California to go to his inauguration in a rowboat.